Pierre Manent
is currently teaching political philosophy at the École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was previously assistant
to Raymond Aron at the Collège de France. He was one of the founders
of, and is a regular contributor to, the quarterly Commentaire.
He has published numerous books and articles, many of them translated
into English: An Intellectual History of Liberalism; Tocqueville
and the Nature of Democracy; The City and Man; Modern Liberty
and its Discontents.